[HN Gopher] The Spanish Witches of Cartagena ___________________________________________________________________ The Spanish Witches of Cartagena Author : Thevet Score : 36 points Date : 2021-05-14 06:32 UTC (16 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.historytoday.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.historytoday.com) | greatgoat420 wrote: | I guess one take away from this would be, be careful about | hearing things that confirm your existing beliefs. Another might | be that institutions with too much power and no true goal(being | that witches do not exist in real life) become corrupt very | easily. | | Maybe there is some connection between the Spanish Inquisition | and AI, given that most AI/ML systems end up reproducing biases | inherent in the data/beliefs of those creating them. | imoverclocked wrote: | I love (read: hate) how being a witch wasn't the real problem. | The real problem was that she had no affiliation with the church. | forinti wrote: | I think you had to be baptized in order to fall under the | jurisdiction of the Church and be fair game to the Inquisition. | | There was a case in Spain (or maybe Portugal) in which Jews | were tricked into converting and were then judged by the | Inquisition. | | Then again, I don't think rules were really a problem. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-14 23:00 UTC)